NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suburban New York newspaper that sparked an uproar among gun enthusiasts by publishing names and addresses of residents holding pistol permits is now planning to publish even more identities of permit-toting locals.

Further names and addresses will be added as they become available to a map originally published on December 24 in the White Plains, New York-based Journal News, the newspaper said.

The original map listed thousands of pistol permit holders in suburban Westchester and Rockland counties just north of New York City.

Along with an article entitled "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood," the map was compiled in response to the December 14 shooting deaths of 26 children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut, editors of the Gannett Corp.-owned newspaper said.

Well, clearly the publisher and reporters don't get it yet. They need a little more educating by local activists until they change their ways or get put out of business. This is war like everything now between liberals and Americans.

When I grew up in Rockland, the Journal-News was a liberal-leaning but halfway decent paper. This rag went down the crapper ever since Gannet took them over. Does this constitute invasion of privacy? Reckless endangerment? Could the Landmark Legal Foundation or the ACLJ help out?

They are so absorbed in their self-righteous indignance of someone else owning a gun, that they don’t even realize there could be a real nutjob out there that won’t stop with finding out email addresses, phone numbers, even home addresses.

It just isn’t something a sane person, moreso a parent, would do unless they were consumed with hate and self-righteousness of the left, oblivious to common sense.

With the data warehousing and data mining capabilities of Google, Facebook and the NSA, just think of the lists and keyword associations that are possible for...OFA subscribers, DNC email lists, or...each of our health records.

Wake me up when they start publishing addresses of illegal gun owners. Not to mention weapons that aren’t guns. I have an extensive collection of knives, some of which may be illegal, who knows? Come on over to my place.

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